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Saturday, January 28, 2017

For my niece's recent 21st birthday, I wanted to make a card that was a bit feminine, but not too fussy and girly. I found Stampin' Up!'s Playful Palette DSP the perfect choice, as it has black incorporated in the designs.

I had a bit of fun with the balloons on this card. The stripey balloon is stamped in black ink on Blushing Bride card, the middle balloon is washi tape layered onto card, then punched out with my balloon punch, and the right-hand balloon was die-cut from Sweet Sugarplum card, then layered over a Very Vanilla punched-out balloon. Great ways to show how Stampin' Up!'s products all work so well together.

Listed below are all the products I used to make this special milestone card. If you live in Australia, and would like to buy these products, just click on one of the thumbnail images to go direct to my online store.

Thanks for visiting my blog today. If, like me, you have school-aged children, I hope you enjoy the last days of the Summer holidays. When my youngest finished school for the year two months ago, I wondered how I'd manage to get through holidays that long ... now that they're coming to an end, I don't know where the time has gone! I am not looking forward to early starts every day, and getting back into routines, but am sure that we'll settle into it, soon enough.

Friday, January 27, 2017

Kim has chosen this cool inspiration pic for our challenge at Just Add Ink this week:

I based the layout of my card on the colours and elements in the picture. The top portion of my card is a piece of wavy-patterned paper from By the Shore Designer Series Paper. I used a panel of diagonally-striped Irresistibly Floral Designer Series Paper below the blue paper.

I was inspired by the shape of the woman's hat, to use the Swirly Scribble dies, to create a little nest for a Calypso Coral bird (the reddish band on the hat looked a coral colour on my computer monitor).

Be sure to check out the rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team's creations, inspired by the photo Kim chose. We hope you feel inspired to share your creation with us, too ... perhaps you'll draw inspiration from the colours, or shapes, or both, in the photo. Half the fun of these challenges is seeing how differently people interpret an inspiration piece.

I have listed below all the Stampin' Up! products used to make this card. If you would like to buy the products for yourself, clicking on one of the thumbnail images will take you direct to my online store.

Friday, January 20, 2017

After a lovely Christmas/New Year break, we are back with an exciting array of challenges lined up for the year, at Just Add Ink.

To kick off our challenge schedule for 2017, we have a blog hop highlighting projects by the Just Add Ink Design Team ... we've all made a pop-up or interactive project.

You may have come to my blog from the very talented Karren's blog, but if not, you can see her creation as you make your way around the 'loop'.

I have made a masculine card, as it's my favourite kind - plus, I'm in love with the new Urban Underground suite of products in Stampin' Up!'s Occasions Catalogue.

Here's the front of my card:

When you first open it, this is what you see:

.... and this is the full pop-up component in the middle, courtesy of the fabulous new Balloon Pop-Up thinlits dies:

Listed below are all the Stampin' Up! products I used to make this card ... if you would like to buy them for yourself, just click on one of the thumbnail images, to be taken to my online store (Australian residents only).

Next up is Tina ... click on the "next" graphic below, to see what she has made.

We hope you have a lot of fun "hopping" around the creations we've made. If you get lost, or hit a broken link, anywhere along the way, just go back to the Just Add Ink home page, where you'll find a complete list of all the participants in the blog hop.